Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of class, students will be able to...

• analyze vocabulary as evidenced by a quiz.
• analyze text as evidenced by discussion and notes.

Due Today:

• Puritanism Vocabulary #2
• Scarlet Letter: 2 discussion questions and Cornell Notes on irony.
• from "Narrative of the Captivity" Questions 4-7 and Charts
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• Due Fri 9/2: Read and annotate The Scarlet Letter thru CH 13 for Lit Circle Meeting #5:
  1. Take Cornell Notes on the main events of CH 12 and CH 13, cite pg. number/textual evidence
  2. Use your annotation guide to identify at least 3 literary devices from the chapters, cite pg. number/textual evidence.

Essential Questions:

• What are the philosophical assumptions of puritans and how do they show up in texts?

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• Define the vocabulary word "fain" and use it in an academic, showing sentence.

• 1. Explain the statement, “He [Chillingworth] became, thenceforth, not a spectator only, but a chief actor, in the poor minister’s interior world.”
  2. What is ironic about Dimmesdale’s incredible success as a minister?
  3. Why are Dimmesdale’s public assertions of guilt ironic?
  4. Explain the ways that Dimmesdale tortures himself and why
  5. Comparing Dimmesdale’s current struggle with his sin with Hawthorne’s earlier treatment of Hester and her sin, what is Hawthorne suggesting about the effects of sin?
• 6. Choose one of your discussion questions from your homework and answer it in your group.